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Nice keister, Ann
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A woodworker warbles, "Well able
Was I, ere I saw Betty Grable!
They cured me, and yet..."
He breaks out in a sweat
At the nicely turned legs on that table.
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Seems to be standing on a ledge of some kind. I'd have worn more sensible shoes in that instance.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Another Mostly Peaceful™ homage
AP journalist Philip Crowther was shooting live video near the square when shots were heard about a block east of the intersection where he was posted Tuesday
Crowther said a storefront window appeared to have been broken by a gunshot
Video from the scene showed people running to seek cover as shots rang out
The shooting came hours before the square is to be the site of a family-friendly street festival marking the anniversary of Floyd's death at the hands of police
Police said they responded to a reports of gunfire at the 3800 block of Elliot Ave. South; soon after a person was taken to hospital with a gunshot wound
Callers told police that a vehicle was seen speeding away from the area
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Missing one Floydian ritual, though: the Stuffing of the Fentanyl in the Arse (hoop-er in the pooper). Presumably that comes before the sacred gunplay.
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All worthy Snarks!
I'm definitely stealing George Floyd is 365 days drug free because we should celebrate a man's accomplishments even as we mock his unfortunate demise.
[IsraelTimes] Police recommend prosecutors charge them with hate crimes and assault with a deadly weapon; Attack occurred during a pro-Paleostinian rally.
Los Angeles police on Tuesday arrested a second suspect in an alleged assault by a pro-Paleostinian group on Jewish men outside a restaurant last week.
Samer Jayylusi, 35, of Whittier was arrested in Anaheim and booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, a police statement said.
Jayylusi is considered one of the "primary suspects" in the assault on May 18 on La Cienega Boulevard, it said.
Police said the case will be presented to prosecutors for consideration of charges including hate crimes. It was not immediately known if Jayylusi has an attorney.
The first suspect arrested was a Banning man taken into custody late Friday and booked for investigation of assault with a deadly weapon.
Police also alleged that the crime was motivated by hatred when that arrest was announced Saturday.
The violence, recorded on video, occurred when a car caravan flying Paleostinian flags stopped near a restaurant where diners were eating at outdoor tables.
Witnesses told news media that people in the caravan threw bottles and chanted "death to Jews" and "free Paleostine," and men got out of the vehicles and began asking who was Jewish. A brawl erupted when two diners said they were Jewish.
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#1 Don't bother with dirt, Wren. It's like the thing that collects around the house. Mommy wipes it off every night, but it's there again. With human dirt we can hope it has some dignity and gets lost. Thank TW, Besoeker and the gang instead. The Mommies and Daddies of Rantburg.
[ToloNews] The Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANDSF) are currently fighting the Taliban ...Arabic for students... in 104 provinces, the Afghan security agencies said on Tuesday, noting a 7 percent increase compared to the same period last year.
Reflecting on the numbers of Taliban attacks across the country, Ahmad Zia Saraj, the head of the Afghan intelligence agency—the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS)--said that the murderous Moslem group has launched 3,500 attacks since the start of the year.
[KhaamaPress] The ministry of Defense in a released statement on Tuesday said that Afghan army’s commando units freed up to 41 people from Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... prison.
Fawad Aman, deputy front man for the Ministry of Defense said Tuesday that Afghan commandos carried out a special operation on Monday night over a Taliban prison in the Marwa village of Pashtun Zarghun district in Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... Province.
According to Aman 41 people including 19 Afghan National Defense and Security Force members and 22 captive civilians were released from the Taliban jail.
The deputy front man for MoD added that seven Talibs were also killed and some of their weapons and ammunition were also destroyed during the operation.
The majority of the released prisoners were civilians, Aman added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk.
Jack! Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things?
Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles.
No, he said. Do you?... MoD stated that 13 al-Qaeda affiliates for the Indian subcontinent were killed in Helman province. MoD added that on Monday afternoon Afghan Air Force targeted Taliban and al-Qaeda hideouts in Popalzu area of Khansheen district in Helmand province. MoD further mentioned that Haji Ulfat, a key Taliban member was also maimed during the AAF air raids. The killed "terrorists" were reportedly skilled bomb makers and were responsible for training the Death Eaters on the utilization process of night vision goggles.
This comes as six people were maimed in separate blasts in the Qarabagh district of Kabul province on Tuesday morning. Local officials told the media that the first incident occurred at around 8:00 am local time in Pashtun-infested Logariha village of the district in which three military personnel were maimed, sequentially the second explosion took place in the same area minutes after the initial blast. The second explosion left three civilians including children maimed. No group or individual grabbed credit for the attack.
Eight security force members were freed from a Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... prison in an operation in northern Baghlan on Sunday night, the Ministry of Defense said.
The operation was launched in Amarkhil village of Baghlan-e-Jadid and the security force members who had been taken captive were released, it said.
[All Africa] It was a bloody Monday as bandidos and armed herdsmen raided communities in the four states of Benue, Plateau, Niger and Anambra, killing about 128 person and destroying property.
OVER 100 KILLED IN BENUE
Suspected armed herdsmen attacked four council wards in Kastina-Ala local government area of Benue State, killing over 100 residents, injuring scores of others and setting several houses ablaze.
A militant Black Lives Matter activist was shot by a group of four black men at a party in London, police reveal. Activists & left-wing politicians first claimed Sasha Johnson was targeted in an assassination attempt because of her “anti-racist” activism. https://t.co/UUPSWbuPkN
When I go to a party there's usually a cake and maybe too much punch.I've never been to one where somebody got shot. But then, I'm not black, am I? Even if my skin was, I wouldn't be, since I don't pack a rod when I socialize.
Sasha Johnson is critically ill in hospital after being shot in the head at a property in Peckham on Sunday.
Met Commander Alison Heydari said the men had "entered the garden of the property and discharged a firearm".
Ms Johnson, 27, was left in a life-threatening condition following the shooting at the property in Consort Road at about 03:00 BST.
On Monday Ms Johnson's party, the Taking the Initiative Party (TTIP), said she had undergone an operation and remained in critical care. "We removed her brain. She'll be fine. She's already talking"
Another man, who was thought to be in his 20s, also suffered a "superficial knife injury" during the attack.
He went to hospital but was discharged following treatment, the Met said.
Det Ch Insp Richard Leonard, who is leading the investigation, said about 30 guests had been at the party, which was being held in the back garden of the property.
He said the four attackers had been dressed in "dark clothing" and went into the garden "through a side entrance".
"In the ensuing melee a firearm has been discharged injuring Sasha," he said.
Imarn Ayton, a friend of Ms Johnson's, previously told the BBC she understood "the incident is more related to rival gangs as opposed to her activism".
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the incident is more related to rival gangs as opposed to her activism".
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] It was a Black Lives Matter protest, and people were banging on her car as she waited for them to let her pass. Like a swimming pool, the protesters could be considered an attractive nuisance, responsible for all that happened to them as a result of them being there.
Lisa O'Quinn, 41, charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill by the use of a motor vehicle
O'Quinn, who is white, is accused of hitting two black women with her car as they protested police killing of Andrew Brown Jr in Elizabeth City, North Carolina
Incident was caught on video recorded by a protester on Monday evening, just hours before one-year anniversary of George Floyd's murder
Protesters Michelle Morris and Val Lindsey, both 42, were hospitalized with injured after being hit by O'Quinn's Nissan
Police are considering charging O'Quinn with a hate crime amid claims that she was heard yelling the n-word
Records indicate that O'Quinn has an extensive criminal history in North Carolina stretching back to at least 2012, which includes convictions on misdemeanor charges of ethnic intimidation, carrying a concealed weapon, larceny and possession of stolen goofs, driving while license revoked, communicating threats, trespass and shoplifting. In each case, she was sentenced to probation, reported The Daily Advance.
As recently as last year, O'Quinn was charged with assault by pointing a gun and communicating threats, reported WRAL.
The fact that Ms O’Quinn is as bad as the protesters doesn’t change the fact that they were a genuine threat to her and any other drivers coming through, but I imagine it will make it harder for her lawyer.
Federal judges in Oregon dismissed lawsuits by #antifa medics & far-left groups who claimed protesters’ right to riot was violated. The far-left have poured untold sums of cash into lawfare against police in Portland. Read my report cowritten w/@MiaCathellhttps://t.co/PHpMktosc7
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I expect to see this in the Babylon Bee, not from Andy Ngo. Good grief!
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"untold sums of cash" going against whatever paltry sum the City of Portland allocates for the legal defense of their police officers. So it would seem they don't care how much it costs to file frivolous lawsuits as long as it makes life difficult for the cops and the city.
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According to data sent to Rudaw English by the Kurdistan Region’s forest police directorate, 4,181 dunams of land has been burned by Ottoman Turkish bombardments in Duhok province so far this year.
In the past ten years more than 1,000,000 dunams of land has been burned in the Kurdistan Region, Ahmed Mohammed, spokesperson of the Kurdistan Region’s Environmental Protection and Improvement board told Rudaw English on Tuesday. Around 35 percent of this was from Ottoman Turkish and Iranian bombardments.
The problem is a recurring issue. Ottoman Turkish and Iranian bombardments destroyed nearly 200,000 dunams of land in the Kurdistan Region last summer, according to a report from the Netherlands-based NGO PAX.
Turkish bombardment damages church in Duhok village
[Rudaw] Ottoman Turkish forces bombed the vicinity of a Christian village in Duhok province in the early hours of Tuesday morning, damaging several buildings, including the village church, locals have told Rudaw.
"It was around 2:40 am when the rockets hit near the village. As you can see, it is only 100 meters away," Dawoud Yukhanna, a villager from Miska, told Rudaw.
Yukhanna also said that the windows of the church and several other houses in the village were broken in the bombardment.
Miska is located in Amedi, and lies some 15 kilometers away from Kesta and Chalke - villages recently abandoned due to Ottoman TurkishArclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s. Only eight families have returned to live in Miska.
PKK confirms death of four fighters in Duhok airstrike, blaming ‘local spies’
[Rudaw] The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) confirmed on Tuesday the death of four of its fighters in a Ottoman TurkishArclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in a Duhok village, claiming they were reported to Ottoman Turkish authorities by "local spies."
"On the night of May 20, a group of our comrades, who had health issues, were targeted by the Ottoman Turkish invading state’s airstrike in the vicinity of Mangeshk village in Duhok while returning from treatment. Four of our comrades were martyred," the PKK’s military arm, People’s Defense Forces (HPG), said in a statement.
"Again, it is understood that some local spies played a role in this incident."
The airstrike took place in Dulia village, some 35 kilometers north of the city of Duhok. The PKK fighters were travelling inside two vehicles which were later burned in the airstrikes. Village chief Mahdi Taha told Rudaw on Friday that the PKK fighters were chased by Ottoman Turkish air forces, and headed to an unpaved road.
Ottoman Turkish state media reported the airstrike and the four deaths on Monday, publishing a video which reportedly showed the moment both vehicles were struck.
"We were in the village when the bombardment started. One bomb hit the mountain and then another hit near the village and I was injured by it," 20-year-old Bawar Ahmad told Rudaw’s Naif Ramazan from a hospital bed on Tuesday.
Ahmad was injured in the leg and was treated in hospital. He is the first civilian reported injured in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... ’s latest operation in the Kurdistan Region.
Most of the residents of Deshish village fled their homes last week after Ottoman Turkish bombardments intensified in the area. This is the third village affected by Turkey’s military operations. Ahmed’s father said just four families are still living in Deshish.
#Iraq | One person died and several were injured on Tuesday when Iraqi security forces fired live rounds in the air to disperse the mass protests in central #Baghdad, according to security and medical sources.https://t.co/MqdKr7LqFJ
— Alghadeer English (@alghadeertv_eng) May 25, 2021
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One person died and several were injured on Tuesday when Iraqi security forces fired live rounds in the air
[IsraelTimes] Israeli security source confirms man, identified as Ahmad Jamil Fahd, killed by a special unit in Umm al-Sharayet; says he was ’terror accomplice’
A young Paleostinian man died early Monday morning after being shot by Israeli Border Police near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Ahmad Jamil Fahd, a resident of the al-Amari refugee camp near Ramallah, was killed by Border Police gunfire in Umm al-Sharayet, an Israeli security official confirmed.
The circumstances of the shooting were not immediately clear. A Border Police spokesperson declined a request for comment.
The Israeli security official said that Fahd, whom he alleged was an accomplice to terrorists, was shot as Border Police sought to arrest terror operatives in a predawn raid.
"During an attempted arrest of terror operatives in Ramallah, one of their accomplices was killed by gunfire from the Border Police’s special police unit," the official said, without offering further details.
Israeli forces regularly enter Umm al-Sharayet, which many Paleostinians consider a suburb of Ramallah. However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... the Oslo Accords, a series of bilateral agreements between Israel and the Paleostine Liberation Organization, zoned the area as West Bank territory in which Israel maintains direct security control.
[JPost] This is the third such incident reported at a petrochemical plant in Iran since the beginning of the week.
Inshallah maintenance or enemy action?
"Once is happenstance, two is coincidence, three is JOOOOS!"
One person was killed and two others were injured in an explosion and fire at a petrochemical plant in Asaluyeh in southern Iran along the coast of the Persian Gulf on Wednesday, in the third such incident in the past four days, according to Iranian media.
The explosion occurred along an oxygen transmission line between the Mobin Petrochemical plant and Damavand Energy Company in Asaluyeh due to an "unknown issue," according to an update on the Damavand Energy Company's website. The fire was contained and extinguished. The director of public relations of the Mobin plant told Iranian media that the complex is still functioning without any issues.
Video reportedly from the scene showed large amounts of smoke billowing from the scene.
The two companies connected to the oxygen transmission line are responsible for producing electricity, among other services, in Iran. The incident comes as much of Iran suffers from widespread blackouts.
Iranian officials have not been entirely clear about what is causing the blackouts, although Iranian media has reported that increased power usage due to crytocurrency mining and hot weather is one of the possible reasons. A delay in repairs on power plants in the country has also been blamed.
The Iranian energy minister explained this week that the country's power plants haven't been able to keep up with demand and that cryptocurrency mining is a major energy consumer, according to the Iranian Fars News Agency. The minister stressed that a cyber attack was not behind the power outages.
This is the third such incident reported at a petrochemical plant in Iran since the beginning of the week. Earlier this week incidents were reported at petrochemical plants at the Kangan Petro Refining Co. (KPRC) and in Shahin Shahr.
The incident on Wednesday took place about 80 kilometers from where the explosion in Kangan was reported on Monday.
According to Iranian media, a fire at the waste warehouse at KPRC was contained and extinguished within an hour and no operational units were damaged. No injuries were reported in the fire.
The cause of the fire in Kangan still has not been reported and is still under investigation. The fire in Kangan came just a day after nine people were injured in an explosion at the Sepahan Nargostar chemical and fireworks factory in the city of Shahin Shahr in Iran’s Isfahan Province on Saturday night.
The cause of the blast was said to also be under investigation.
The Sepahan Nargostar factory is a producer of industrial and commercial explosive materials and is under the supervision of the National Security Council, according to IRNA (Islamic Republic News Agency), the official government-controlled news agency. The company produces various types of fireworks and gunpowder, as well as nitrate, sodium, potassium, strontium, calcium, copper and barium, the report said.
The Guardian reported on Sunday that the blast actually took place at the Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company (HESA), which produces a variety of aircraft, including drones, for Iranian and pro-Iranian forces and is also located in Shahin Shahr.
The explosion was linked to the shooting down of a drone by Israel near the Jordanian border last week, the report said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was an Iranian drone sent from either Iraq or Syria. The IDF collected fragments of the destroyed aircraft for further examination.
The news of the fires and the explosions comes just days after Iranian officials reported major progress in negotiations on renewing the Iran nuclear deal.
Last Thursday, Rouhani said all parties to the talks have agreed to lift “all major sanctions” on Iranian oil, petrochemicals, shipping, insurance and the central bank.
Last year, a series of explosions and fires hit industrial sites across Iran, including a number of petrochemical plants. Iranian officials referred to most of the cases as incidents or accidents, although some reports have claimed that at least some of them involved foul play. Aging infrastructure in Iran has also been blamed for some of the incidents.
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Someone's working their way backward through Hamas' logistics.
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Gotta wonder, if you're the average Iranian working stiff coping with life in an evil totalitarian theocracy, how hard are you gonna work to maintain their infrastructure?
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Said it before; every Iranian new build has an Israeli bomb in it and some guy in Tel Aviv has a phone with a bunch of "contacts" on it. Sometimes he lets his granddaughter play with it.
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A source from the #SDF stated that #ISIS has moved their activities to the western countryside of #Syria’s Deir ez-Zor, which until recently was more stable than the eastern and northern countrysides. https://t.co/YjIJl3Qnrx
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) May 25, 2021
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The military escalation within the de-escalation zone between the Syrian government and Turkish-backed armed groups comes despite the ceasefire validity that entered its second year. #Idlib#SAA#SNAhttps://t.co/CHfdZdQfLb
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) May 25, 2021
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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